Is that the origin of the term "greenbacks" ?
OK, I see it now; definite grease. I initially thought that it was just a well-worn coin.
What do YOU see? It looks OK to me unless you have rotation.
After almost 15 mins of reading, and still not done, I think that the article is way too long.
I think that newbies or folks who have started collecting in the last 5-10 have been exposed to so much TPG talk that they think that ANY coin...
Sorry, I couldn't open it.
Why would you spend the money to have it graded, even if they would? You can see with your own eyes what the grade would be, and it has also been...
50 years back I used to detect outside small towns in the West (not SoCal) where travelling carnivals, flea markets etc used to be. Also old...
Yes, been there, done that. Stationed there in NH for 2 years
Well, ETSY and Amazon are full of them
Actually MD is caused by the die moving just a little in the microsecond after the strike as it rises, because the die is a little loose in the...
Yes, I think MD
Your best bet is the coin show this Sunday in Cheektowaga, which is essentially Buffalo: Show Location The Knights Event Center in Columbus...
Yes, it's unbelievable what AI can generate. Just earlier in the week, Iran was running AI video that VERY realistically showed blanket bombing...
I picked the 1872 dollar, since that's 100 years before the military sent me to Kodiak Alaska for 2 years, and also when our first child was born....
I sent your post to a friend on another site who lives in Buffalo
Yes, I've had my fingers in many of the 1859 pies. I've co-written a few Vicky articles in the Canadian Coin Journal, as well as the...
My niche, and it's a small one, is Canadian Victoria large cent varieties for the last 40 or so years and I've seen 10's of thousands of them
Until I saw the rust, I thought that it was a flint spear point.
All I have is an old, worn one.
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